Michael Dugher MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, responding to UKIP’s decision to sit with far-right Polish MEP Robert Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, said:

“As we approach Remembrance in the UK, we rightly honour all those people in Britain who stood up to Hitler and fought against the Nazis and fascism in Europe. Yet here are UKIP forming an alliance with a far-right party in Europe that denies the fact that millions were murdered in the Holocaust, in order to keep receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds from the European Parliament. This shows once again that UKIP do not share the values of decent working people in Britain.”

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